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04/27/12 |
Very Good |
 "...that rare thing, a movie that says shame on sexual shame and double shame on the double standard.... the film is both sexy and wholesome." |
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04/20/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a disarming comedy... Tim Story and collaborators succeed in making a courtship comedy that will entertain women and amuse men." |
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03/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "...this potty-mouthed and drug-laced reimagining of the 1980s TV show has one of the highest laughs-per-minute ratios since the 'Naked Gun' films." |
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03/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "Weitz is a gifted visual storyteller who compresses a lot of emotional information into wordless sequences.... his lost boys and lost adults find themselves in the awkward dance of intimacy." |
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02/24/12 |
Very Good |
 "...a riotous, raunchy, and more than a little raggedy showcase for Rudd's improv genius and Aniston's airy groundedness. He is gut-busting funny, she gently ticklish..." |
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02/17/12 |
Outstanding |
 "Is the story a parable of the courageous souls who would protect endangered species? Is it about respect for all living creatures? Yes and yes. Don't miss it." |
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02/17/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "McG, auteur of the 'Charlie's Angels' films, is not blessed with finesse.... aims low but provides the basic movie pleasure of seeing good-looking people looking good." |
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W.E.Philadelphia Inquirer |
02/10/12 |
Moderate |
 "Madonna, don't preach: If material things mean so little, why photograph them with such obvious care?" |
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01/20/12 |
Very Good |
 "Daldry's movie opens with bits of detritus and particulate matter falling from the Twin Towers. It ends by putting these bits and particles back together in a meaningful way." |
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01/13/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Not since 'Dreamgirls' have I heard a movie audience burst into spontaneous applause after on-screen musical numbers. It's the sequences between the numbers that are instantly forgettable." |
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01/13/12 |
Outstanding |
 "...exhilarating... feels like cinema verite.... Rees tells Alike's story in vignettes that are sometimes slapstick, sometimes heartbreaking, always tender." |
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12/23/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...family entertainment in the spirit (and fur) of 'Marley & Me'... a freewheeling account of parents, children, animals, life, death, grief, and moving on.... pleasant if insubstantial." |
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12/09/11 |
Very Good |
 "...an explicit movie about one young girl's latency period... an affectionate character sketch from French director Céline Sciamma. She matter-of-factly presents Laure as a 'tween trying on the other gender as her younger sister might try on Dad's shoes." |
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12/09/11 |
Very Good |
 "...there is much nudity and much more graphic sex. It serves to make the audience as alienated and lost as its characters." |
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11/23/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The filmmakers have more sympathy for Monroe than for Olivier..." |
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11/18/11 |
Very Good |
 "...sympathetically details Bella's journey from girlhood to womanhood... If by several lengths it is the best of the 'Twilight' movies it is because it has the best story to tell." |
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11/11/11 |
Moderate |
 "By turns pleasant and preposterous... the filmmakers prolong 22 minutes of material over more than 80 minutes and that's not such a good thing..." |
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11/04/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...nearly as funny as the first ['Harold & Kumar' movie] and funnier than the second... succeeds in its heroic quest to leave no stoner unturned. Think of it as 'Airplane!' with controlled substances." |
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11/04/11 |
Very Good |
 "...like 'The Silence of the Lambs,' this film, by turns macabre, melodramatic, and gothic, makes the heart race and the skin crawl." |
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10/28/11 |
Moderate |
 "...an airless, bilious, endless pageant of pseudohistory." |
